WASHINGTON, July 4 — Under fire for his response to America’s spiraling coronavirus caseload, President Donald Trump headed to Mount Rushmore yesterday for a night of holiday fireworks that he hopes will provide a much-needed distraction. On the eve of Independence Day, the Republican leader...
Saturday, 04 Jul 2020 06:59 AM MYT
On the eve of Independence Day, the Republican leader will speak in the shadow of four notable predecessors: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, whose likenesses are carved into a granite cliff in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The president will “tell the truth about America’s history and he will tell the truth about those trying to tear it down and divide our country,” a campaign official said.
“We’re going to have a tremendous evening,” the president said Thursday. “It’s going to be a fireworks display like few people have seen.”The pandemic has claimed nearly 130,000 American lives, and a recent resurgence of cases in the country’s south and west “puts the entire country at risk,” top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has said.
US testing has risen sharply, but health experts say it still lags on a per capita basis behind many other countries and does not fully explain the case rise. They also note that deaths tend to increase a few weeks after cases rise.
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